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Topic: March Madness

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shabamon
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March Madness

Posted: 3/2/2026 10:38:16 AM

The postseason is officially here as there is a Horizon Tournament play-in game between IU-Indy and Cleveland State tonight. Use this thread to talk all things conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament.

Yearly reminder that the Horizon has the best conference tournament format. It's gotten a little wacky with 11 teams and everyone gets in. But play-in between IU-Indy and Cleveland State on campus. Winner gets 1 seed Wright State and the second round is all campus sites. Then a complete re-seed with the bottom two remaining seeds doing a play-in game before playing the top remaining seed in the semis. They constantly protect their top teams, more than half the teams get one last home game for the fans, semis and finals are neutral site, and no team has to play more than three games in as many days.

https://x.com/TroyMachir/status/2028483500555255940/photo/1

Meanwhile the Sun Belt, WTF is this?

https://x.com/SunBelt/status/2027621057381761179/photo/1

This leaves the possibility of playing seven games in seven days, all games played in Pensacola- a corner of a somewhat geographically disparate conference. How do you even plan travel to this if you're a fan of a mid to lower seed team?

Good follow to keep track of who's eliminated from national championship consideration: https://x.com/champcountdown . Pretty funny that Miami's best player from last year, Kam Craft, transferred to Georgia Tech and they're the first power conference team eliminated.

GraffZ06
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RE: March Madness

Posted: 3/2/2026 1:48:42 PM

I don't known if I'd call the Horizon's great. To each their own, but I loathe "play-in" games. I also hate re-seeding teams. Put the bracket together. Play the bracket. Single elimination upsets and unexpected easy/difficult match-ups are part of the beauty and excitement of March Madness IMO.

You can't even MAKE a bracket for the craziness that is the Horizon. Might as well pull names/games out of a hat.

If we're so concerned about protecting the "best" teams - just send the top 2 to the tournament and have them play a best of 3 series NBA style. #Boring.

Last Edited: 3/2/2026 1:49:33 PM by GraffZ06

M.D.W.S.T
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RE: March Madness

Posted: 3/2/2026 2:54:11 PM

Sun Belt has the worst tournament bracket I've ever seen.

It makes it 10x worse when you realize seeds 2/3/4/5/6/7 all have the same damn record, so they all get shuffled out into seeds by whatever random ass tie breakers they have to use.

The #2 seed, Marshall (19-12, 11-7) gets a free pass into the Semi-Finals. One win sends them to the Championship.

The #7 seed, Arkansas State (20-11, 11-7) will play 4 games before getting to the Semi-finals.

South Alabama, #6 (21-10, 11-7) has a similar road to Arkansas State despite both winning more games than Marshall.

Throw it all in the trash.

OhioCatFan
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RE: March Madness

Posted: 3/2/2026 3:03:55 PM

M.D.W.S.T wrote:

Perhaps the SBC hired the same consultants the MAC hired to come up with its football tiebreaker rules.

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shabamon
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RE: March Madness

Posted: 3/5/2026 7:54:14 AM

Some good first round action last night. Gardner-Webb was at risk of having the worst win percentage in the country but they advance in the Big South with a win over USC-Upstate.

bobcatsquared
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RE: March Madness

Posted: 3/5/2026 6:24:49 PM

Not sure what the Sun Belt Conference is thinking. First, with it's crazy bracket and all of its byes and second with all tournament games played in Pensacola, Fla., despite no conference members from Florida.

So, let's take a look at attendance so far with two games played each day, Tuesday through Sunday and the title game on Monday.
Tue game 1: 629
Tue game 2: 719
Wed game 1: 824
Wed game 2: 931
Thu game 1: 1373
Thu game 2: 1081

Last Edited: 3/6/2026 9:01:29 AM by bobcatsquared

shabamon
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RE: March Madness

Posted: 3/6/2026 7:48:54 AM

We have our first March moment.

https://x.com/i/status/2029742494389284954

Andrew Ruck
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RE: March Madness

Posted: 3/6/2026 8:13:12 AM

bobcatsquared wrote:

It honestly feels like the coaches and Administrators just decided to find a reason to personally spend a week in dreary early March in Florida. Like when a midwest company has their strategic planning meetings in San Diego just because they can.

Andrew Ruck
B.B.A. 2003

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